IPS researcher Johnson selected for Messenger science team

March 15, 2007

IPS faculty member
Catherine Johnson
has been selected to join the science team of the
Messenger spacecraft
mission to Mercury.
The international
spacecraft science team
will analyze the data in a wide variety of domains.
Dr. Johnson, an expert in planetary magnetic and gravity fields,
will study Messenger data on Mercury's magnetic field and what
this tells us about the interior of the planet.